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I started trapping eels last year with only limited success but the ones I did get were big ones. The two in the pic are in a 5 gallon bucket, they were a little too heavy to fish but they made nice skins for GRS Slims. One thing I found trapping them is that they would gorge themselves on whatever bait I had in the trap and their stomach would expand a lot (not sure if you can pick up in the picture how thick they are). Even if you can get some pretty big eels from the bait and tackle shops they are usually too skinny to skin a big plug. It might be worth buying some and giving them a bunch of food to literally try to fatten them up. The two in the pic made short work of a whole chopped up bunker.
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